If youd like the government to change something about Obamacare, give the White House a ring. Theyre in a flexible mood.

President Obama this week approved yet another delay to provisions in the Affordable Care Act, giving insurers until 2016 to sell a type of insurance policy thats supposed to be banned under the health-reform law. The ban, which was supposed to begin this year, would prevent insurers from selling bare-bones plans that might be affordable but dont abide by 10 essential service rules required under the new law.

When insurers began canceling such coverage last year, however, several million Americans were forced off plans they had chosen, with most alternatives being more expensive. That undermined Obamas frequent claim that if you like your health insurance, you can keep it, and turned into one of the most controversial elements of a law that hardly lacks detractors.

In November, Obama announced a one-year delay in the ban on substandard plans, as he used to call them. Now, extending the delay to 2016 will provide consumers with choices so they can decide what is best, the government says. Yet these limbo plans  temporarily allowed but bound to vanish at some point  defy the whole intent of Obamacare, as if the president is losing faith in his own plan. This is a political move to minimize the impact of this as an argument against Democratic candidates, says Sean Nicholson, a management professor at Cornell University.

Right becasue it’s not full government takeover of the whole medical industry - this is the goal. He and the Leftists would like Obamacare to fail so they can do what Socialist demagogues do best when government fails: demand MORE GOVERNMENT - in this case, FULL GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER.

How can a plan be “sub-standard” if it’s what the individual wants? My husband and I had planned on taking out a catastrophic health insurance policy once we retire. We don’t need all the wings/dings of what Obamacare is shoving at everyone. Now I suppose we will never have that option.

Obama is making all these exceptions for purely political reasons, kicking the can down the road past the next election cycle with no concern for what it does to their financial model. I realize this was a financial disaster from the beginning and I think all these changes are making their financial model even worse. I would like to see CBO run another analysis on the cost, taking into account what these exemptions are doing.

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posted on 03/07/2014 10:26:16 AM PST
by Teotwawki
(For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)

As if Obama cares Obamacare works or not. Now that this much power is in the hands of his merry band of statist thugs he couldn’t care less if it works. It WILL lead to single payer. It WILL lead to massive corruption and WILL be a huge tool of political destruction. “Mr. Panic, I see you want to run for Senate, It’d be a shame if Mrs. Panic was to know about that unfortunate rash you had treated.”

Just pure coincidence that all medical records are to be reported to a federal database and doctors are more and more asking about firearms ownership...

Smoke and mirrors from the start and now also into the future. Meanwhile they destroyed the U.S. health care system and have replaced it with nothing. The entire law, all of its pages, need to be repealed.

He cares. He wants it enacted AFTER the elections. Obamacare’s a powerful totalitarian freak bit of trash... holds people health in the control of corrupt democrats. Trust me, they want that - they just don’t want to pay for their little horror at the ballot box.

You’re right, they don’t care who this hurts - never did. Look at Ezekiel Emmanuel’s policies - according to him there is a time when you just have to get off the planet because you’re not worth staying alive. And of course that means us peons...not the likes of him.

These arrogant sob’s have a God complex. Masters of the Universe. We’d all have been better off if they just went to Wall Street and stayed out of D.C.

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